专八英语改错练习题及答案解析

Industrial growth in countries had formerly beenmarkets __1__

hastened regional self-sufficiency and, in theconsequence, __2__

hastened the collapse of organized long-distance process was intensified by the spread of a newmetal, iron.

In almost 1400 B.C. new smelting techniques led to thehigh __3__

temperatures which could produce an iron superior in

strength to bronze. Probably developing in northeastern __4__

Turkey, this process spread over Europe considerately more __5__

rapidly than the art of processing rapid

spread was due not only particularly war and the movements __6__

of people, but chiefly, to the wide occurence of iron ore as well. __7__

Iron was available for smelting in almost every land and, in

efficiency,iron forging offered almost every country the __8__

prospect of economical self-sufficiency. It was eagerly seized __9__

upon, and the bottom fell out of the bronze market and the

general economics. Trade stagnated, ships were laid up, and __10__

a recession set in.

答案及解析(反白可见):

1. had前加that/which

由that/which引导定语从句

2. 去掉the

in consequence of 为习语

st—about/around

4. developing—developed

过去分词表示该工艺已经开发完成

5. considerately—considerably

两者为形近词，前者意为“体谅地，体贴地”，后者则是“相当地”

6. 在war前加to

此处为due not only chiefly to...的结构

7. occurence—occurrence

拼写错误

8. efficiency—effect

in effect为习语，相当于in fact

9. economical—economic

前者意味“节省的，经济的`”，后者意为“经济状况的，与经济相关的”

10. economics—economy

前者意为“经济学”，后者意为“经济